 A J Hartley
read all posts by A J HartleyI’m sitting in for Misty today (thanks, M!) since I missed my Friday post.
As some of you may know, all five of my novels to date come out as audiobooks today from Audible, including the two fantasy adventures Act of Will and Will Power. One of the many oddities of this sudden audio onslaught is that the actor who was chosen to read the Will books, Jonathan Davis, is an old friend of mine. We met in the mid nineties, while I was working as a dramaturg for Georgia Shakespeare in Atlanta, where he had been working for many summers. We hit it off right away, and not only because he is a remarkably gifted and inventive actor (still the best Bottom I’ve ever seen! [er… note the capital B and think A Midsummer Night’s Dream]). He was also a fantasy fan, and we had many a long [...]
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 DavidBCoe
read all posts by DavidBCoeAs I mentioned in last week’s post, I’m teaching a short writing course at my daughters’ school. We had our second session this past Friday night, and, once again, I had my “students” do a couple of writing exercises in class. As I did last week, I did the exercises myself, right along with them, and found to my surprise that I loved the passages I wrote.
There was nothing terribly creative about the exercises I had the class do. Last week we worked on character development; this week we discussed point of view and voice. For the first exercise, I had the class write a scene in which the character they created during last week’s class meets the student him or herself (so when I wrote mine, I had the character I worked on the week before encounter me at a bus stop). I told them to write the [...]
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 Faith Hunter
read all posts by Faith HunterSorry it’s so late…weather in the mountains is rainy and it took this long to get online!
David talked about authors’ and characters’ time-conscious voice this week, and it got me to thinking about the way I revise in terms of macro revisions and micro revisions. A macro rewrite, also called a textual rewrite, is a big heavy duty revision of major proportions where the plot line, character development, and other big stuff gets needed attention and revision. I do one of these for a book at about the ¾ mark, or page 250 in a 114,000 word mscpt.
When working out a book (or building a book) things change. A character may have suddenly revealed something about himself that needs to be added into the plot. A subplot line that looked good [...]
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